TRAINEE accountants celebrated their entry into the world of big numbers at a special evening in Reading.

They were at a bash staged by the Thames Valley Society of Chartered Accountants (TVSCA) at the Holiday Inn, Richfield Avenue.

Trainees Caroline Tradewell and Michael Kersey, from Deloitte & Touche, in Abbey Street, and Jonathan Russell, of KPMG, Arlington Business Park, Theale, were among those who won top results in the first part of the Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales (ICAEW) examinations.

And newly qualified accountants Sharon Cooper and Timothy Pullen, of Ernst & Young in King's Road and Forbury Road, managed to get the best results in the ICAEW advanced exams.